U-Theater

U-Theater

This Taiwanese dance and music group returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with “Beyond Time,” billed as “a visual and auditory spectacle that reflects on man&… 

Sankai Juku

Sankai Juku

Nearly a decade since their last visit to New York, the venerable butoh collective Sankai Juku returns with “Umusuna: Memories Before History. 

James Thiérrée

James Thiérrée

In “Tabac Rouge,” a mischievous dance-theater work that is part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the unpredictable artist James Thiérr&… 

Bullseye Comedy Night

Bullseye Comedy Night

Jesse Thorn, host of NPR’s pop-culture interview program “Bullseye,” hosts this exemplary night of stand-up comedy, with stand-up from Aisha Tyler, Maria Bamford,… 

Mark Morris Dance Group

Mark Morris Dance Group

In time for May flowers, the Mark Morris Dance Group presents the New York premiere of “Spring, Spring, Spring,” a meditation on “The Rite of Spring,” with … 

Semele

Semele

Handel’s opera about a narcissistic goddess receives a brilliantly irreverent makeover by the director Zhang Huan in this production that blends European costume with Chinese… 

Hannibal Buress

Hannibal Buress

Widely regarded as one of the next superstars of comedy, Mr. 

Mariinsky Ballet

Mariinsky Ballet

This St. 

Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf

Prokofiev’s children’s classic gets a new production from the Little Orchestra Society, with David Alan Miller conducting. 

L.A. Dance Project

L.A. Dance Project

After a celebrated career as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Benjamin Millepied decamped to the West Coast in 2012 and started the L. 

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal first appeared in New York 30 years ago with its radical brand of dance-theater. 

Shakespeares Sonnets

Shakespeares Sonnets

(performances start on Oct. 

DanceAfrica

DanceAfrica

This annual extravaganza, focused this year on Madagascar, kicks off with a sampler of music and dance featuring Madagascar Slim, Groupe Bakomanga and the BAM/Restoration DanceAfri… 

Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp

This event is first and foremost a concert of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, a string band that manages to make the fiddle and banjo sound smooth, sexy and modern.